Re: mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

2013-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 05:39:17AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >On 14 May 2013 01:23, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote: >>In any case, how does Linux deal with this issue? > >I don't know. A buffer on the terminal's side of the pty? Automatic >deadlock detection in the kernel, causing one of the blocking wri

Re: mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

2013-05-13 Thread Andy Koppe
On 14 May 2013 01:23, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> On 13 May 2013 22:35, Adrian H wrote: >> > I inadvertently dumped a binary stream to the terminal and it froze >> > mintty. When I tried to kill the process dumping the data, it >> > wouldn't

Re: mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

2013-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:45:17PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >On 13 May 2013 22:35, Adrian H wrote: >> I inadvertently dumped a binary stream to the terminal and it froze >> mintty. When I tried to kill the process dumping the data, it >> wouldn't die, even when using -9 switch. When I used Proces

Re: mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

2013-05-13 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > > On 13 May 2013 22:35, Adrian H wrote: > > I inadvertently dumped a binary stream to the terminal and it froze > > mintty. When I tried to kill the process dumping the data, it > > wouldn't die, even when using -9 switch. When I used Process

Re: mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

2013-05-13 Thread Andy Koppe
On 13 May 2013 22:35, Adrian H wrote: > I inadvertently dumped a binary stream to the terminal and it froze > mintty. When I tried to kill the process dumping the data, it > wouldn't die, even when using -9 switch. When I used Process Explorer > to kill it, it died and mintty resumed working. > >

mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

2013-05-13 Thread Adrian H
I inadvertently dumped a binary stream to the terminal and it froze mintty. When I tried to kill the process dumping the data, it wouldn't die, even when using -9 switch. When I used Process Explorer to kill it, it died and mintty resumed working. I narrowed the stream down to 370 'lines' by cat